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in general malt duft, as they do not fcreen their 

 malt. The fences of common farmers are 

 making banks, and fowing furze feed. Grafs 

 lands are applied to feeding fheep and cows. 

 Their fheep fyftem is that of breeding. They 

 keep their lambs till they are two year old we- 

 thers, and then fell them to thofe who fatten 

 near the coaft. Thefe they fell at i is. to i8s. 

 each ; and they cull fome ewes every year, 

 which the butchers buy at 145. or 155. They 

 fheer generally on an average 4lb. wool, 

 which fells 135. to 195. 6d a flone, at which 

 amazing price fome was fold this year. The 

 cottars have all Iheep, which they milk for their 

 families. The poor people reckon their cattle 

 by collops, that is proportions. The heavieft 

 collop is fix (beep, the next is a horfe, the next 

 two heifers, and laftly the cow. Flocks rife to 

 500 fheep; no folding. Dairies are eon- 

 fiderable. They rife from 20 to 50 cows, are 

 employed in making butter only; in fome 

 parts of the county they make very good cheefe. 

 An acre and a quarter maintains a cow in 

 fummer and winter grafs and hay. The far- 

 mer generally lets them out to dairymen, at 2!. 

 a cow, and a guinea for horn money ; the 405. 

 is for the butter, and the guinea for the other 

 produce, four milk, pigs, and calf. But fome- 

 times the rent is in butter a hundred weight per 

 cow delivered in Cork, and the guinea is in cadi. 

 The produce is not much more than this 

 cwt. of butter; for the dairyman's profit lies 

 principally in having the gnafs of a cow, an 

 acre of ground, and a cabbin and garden, and 



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